"I'M A COP, YOU IDIOT!": Governor Schwarzenegger as Detective John Kimball

Movie:White Heat (1949) (directed by Raoul Walsh)Undercover cop: Edmond O’Brien divides his time between Vic Pardo and Hank Fallon.Undercover quarry: Mama’s boy Cody Jarrett.Face Off: Cody discovers “the copper.”Crime does/does not pay: Cody goes out with a bang, literally.Words to live/die by: “Top of the World!”Coroner’s Report: “If you think Mr. Cagney looked brutal when he punched Mae Clark in the face with a ripe grapefruit in Public Enemy, you should see the sweet and loving things he does to handsome Virginia Mayo, who plays his low-grade wife in this film.” -Bosley Crowther, New YorkTimes

Movie: Kindergarten Cop (1990) (directed by Ivan Reitman)Undercover cop: Arnold will never make it as a guest on Sesame Street.Undercover quarry: Who would dare mess with a drug dealer named “Cullen Crisp?”Face Off: If you thought Crisp was tough, check out his mom!Crime does/does not pay scene: Crisp’s final shootout with Arnold.Words to live/die by: “We're going to play a wonderful game called..."Who is my daddy and what does he do?”Coroner’s Report: “Kindergarten Cop is made up out of parts that shouldn't fit, but somehow they do, making a slick entertainment out of the improbable, the impossible, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.” -Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times

Movie: Deep Cover (1992) (directed by Bill Duke)Undercover cop: Laurence Fishburne split between Russell Stevens, Jr and John Hull.Undercover quarry: Jeff Goldblum at his best as a crazy, but lovable drug dealerFace Off: Cocaine’s a hell of a drug.Crime does/does not pay scene: Verdict on new designer drug: “…it’s good!!!!”Words to live/die by: “You know something? I don't think you could trust yourself.”Coroner’s Report: “Director Bill Duke's portrait of a neurotically driven cop who goes undercover in Los Angeles to chase Colombian drug dealers is so riddled with cliches that even [Laurence] Fishburne can't rescue it.” -Richard Harrington, Washington Post

Movie: Reservoir Dogs (1992) (directed by Quentin Tarantino)Undercover cop: Tim Roth bleeding as Mr. Orange.Undercover quarry: The only thing scarier than a young Lawrence Tierney is an old one.Face Off: Michael Madsen, a razor blade, a cop’s ear and “Stuck in the Middle with You.”Crime does/does not pay scene: Mr. White’s grand exit.Words to live/die by: “If you shoot this man, you die next. Repeat. If you shoot this man, you die next.”Coroner’s Report: “Though small in physical scope, Reservoir Dogs is immensely complicated in its structure, which for the most part works with breathtaking effect.” -Vincent Canby, New YorkTimes

Movie: Face/Off (1997) (directed by John Woo)Undercover cop: Sean Archer/Castor Troy. John Travolta and Nicolas Cage play one or the other.Undercover Quarry: Castor Troy/Sean Archer.Face Off: Depends on how you define it…Crime does/does not pay scene: Castor’s harpoon through the chest. Or is it Sean?Words to live/die by: “It’s like looking into a mirror, but not.”Coroner’s Report: “In its best moments, Face/Off practically mainlines fury, leaving audiences no time to think or even breathe.” -Kenneth Turan, Los AngelesTimes

The Good Shepherd The CIA and the Mafia have been in bed together at least since the Bay of Pigs in 1961, so why shouldn’t Robert De Niro turn the former’s history into a blue-blood version of The Godfather ? Watch the trailer for The Good Shepherd (QuickTime)

Ferrell behavior Will Ferrell might spend a lot of his on-screen time with his pants off, running and screaming, but in person, promoting his new movie Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby , he can be as buttoned down as Tony Snow before the White House press corps.

My Super Ex-Girlfriend Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson, and Anna Faris give it their all, and they forge a comic synergy that's on, even when the material isn't. Watch the trailer for My Super Ex-Girlfriend (QuickTime)

25. DUSTIN PEDROIA AND KEVIN YOUKILIS We love us some Sox — we can see the majestic green of Fenway’s stadium walls from all our Phoenix restrooms, and it just gets our hearts afluttering. That is, until we contemplate the mugs of the one-two combo of Youkilis and Pedroia. Don’t misunderstand us — they’re good guys (though Youk seems to have an eensy-weensy anger-management issue) — but their visages are perhaps better suited to a sport like football, where one’s entire face is sheathed in a helmet.

Child's play Here's something I never thought I'd write: Nora Ephron has made one of the best movies of the year.

Review: Crazy Heart Every great actor has at least one washed-up, alcoholic, award-winning-country-singer role in him. For Jeff Bridges, it's "Bad" Blake, a former C&W legend now reduced to playing bowling alleys and dive bars in tiny towns in the Southwest.

Half Nelson By day Ryan Gosling’s history teacher in this film from Ryan Fleck regales his inner-city middle-school students with his hip, dialectical approach to history; by night he’s hanging out with whores and smoking crack. Watch the trailer for Half Nelson (QuickTime)